Do You Need Supplements?

In the US the soil is depleted. Lookup soil depletion stats, and you’ll find great articles in Scientific American about how an orange today has less than a tenth of the Vitamin A which oranges in 1910 had.

Walking through the village of Ancient Messene, you see figs and oranges and pomegranates just hanging off of trees all about you. In the family garden, there is every vegetation you can imagine. And they’re fed by a mineral-dense mountain spring, pouring forth nutrients in to them all the time. And you can tell you feel different (better) when eating food here.

​I’m as opposed to relying on supplementation as much as the next whole food advocate. But once you experience how you feel with real food from real sources, you realize that vitamin and mineral supplementation in the US is a necessity.